Water Reflections

The following quote comes from this delightful post. Read the quote and tell me if you don't think this is really very cool?!?!??!

“You exhale roughly a liter of water per day into the atmosphere, and most of this water rains or snows back down again within about a week’s time. The total global precipitation is about 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion) times greater than the amount of water you exhale, so your impact on the weather is pretty minor.

But even if you contribute only one quadrillionth of the total water content in a snowflake, that is still about 1,000 molecules. It depends on how well things are mixed in the atmosphere, but there are probably, very roughly, about a thousand of your molecules in every snowflake.”

photo december, 2008... so i wonder how many of my molecules are in this shot taken in my own backyard???

presence knows presence

"Prayer is not primarily saying words or thinking thoughts. It is, rather, a stance, a way of being present.

It’s a way of living in the Presence, living in awareness of the Presence, and even of enjoying the Presence. Presence knows Presence.

The full contemplative is not just aware of the Presence,

but trusts,
allows,
and delights in it." -- Richard Rohr

january, 2010 morning ©lucy

Water Reflections

"When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze."

~Isaiah 43:2

photo ©h3images

Water Reflections

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." -- Rumi

glendolough waterfall © lucy 2009

resurrection

from lucy's phone 4.07.09

good morning, valentine

Brazos de Dios

december views - "golden day"

photos by lucy 12.01.08 morning walk

you decide

"In making art you declare what is important." from Art and Fear

photo taken @ Safeway

extravagance

"We have very little evidence that sensible and frugal are actually qualities cherished by the Great Creator." --Julia Cameron from The Sound of Paper




photos taken by lucy 11.01.08

wordless wednesday

bounty

It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don't try
to make them elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

--Mary Oliver, Thirst

photos by lucy from the san rafael farmer's market

god's special creation!

here is the little guy who totally stole my heart on the recent "baby road trip". his name is connor. he belongs to my honorary 'daughter' which we decided makes me his honorary grandmother. i couldn't be happier ☺!

wing of the day

Come With Me
To the quiet minute between two noisy minutes
It's always waiting ready to welcome us
Tucked under the wing of the day
I'll be there
Where will you be?

Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye from her book Come with Me: Poems for a Journey.

poem found at Paris Parfait

photo by lucy 5.17.08

think pink

Out of myself, but wanting to go

beyond that, wanting what I see

in your eyes, not power, but to
kiss the ground with the dawn

breeze for company, wearing white
pilgrim cloth. I have a certain

knowing. Now I want sight.

--Rumi

morning walk photos by lucy

mindful

by Mary Oliver

Every day
I see or I hear
something
that more or less

kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle

in the haystack
of light.
It is what I was born for---
to look, to listen,

to lose myself
inside this soft world---
to instruct myself
over and over


in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,

the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant---
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,

the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help

but grow wise
with such teachings
as these---
the untrimmable light

of the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?

lucy's photos @ mount rainier 5.01.08

stars of the beach

Oh, stars, and dreams, and gentle night;
Oh, night and stars, return!

excerpted from Stars by Emily Bronte

heart images

"In difficult times you should always carry something beautiful in your heart." - Blaise Pascal

photo by lucy; quote found at "Of dreams and visions"

matin

Somewhere, out at the edges, the night
Is turning and the waves of darkness
Begin to brighten the shore of dawn

The heavy dark falls back to earth
And the freed air goes wild with light,
The heart fills with fresh, bright breath
And thoughts stir to give birth to color.

--John O'Donohue

photo by h3images

seeing red

1st door is on the side of notre dame. next door & "bourbon street" sign are on the ile de la cite. remainder photos were taken this morning while circling the block of my neighborhood--(anxiously awaiting tess' arrival.)